Cheap Links 2002 Championship Edition (Software) (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Me) Price

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Customer Reviews of Links 2002 Championship Edition

*Awesome on a Mac

I admit, I didn't purchase the game from this site because I couldn't. They don't carry it for Mac. But when I read, with much delight, one of the reviews spouting off about 90% of the bad stuff said about Microsoft is slander, 9% is sour grapes from less talented people (whatever), leaving supposedly only 1% actually true, I had to respond with my OWN Mac-biased review. Sounds like this guy has some deep issues of over-justification. I've been a Mac fan my life, true. But I've had to work on a Microsoft-based computer at my job (call it a sentence). Played games on both. And, anyone who cannot see the superiority of the Mac are either fooling themselves, or just a fool. I have Virtual PC on my old Mac and the games run and look better on it, than on the Microsoft system itself! Now, I just got a new 17" iMac and I almost cried from the beauty of the landscaping on my monitor when I played this game. And, I must say, the play was seemless.
All in all, I would totally recommend this game for anyone using a Mac. As for Windows users, are you sure it's the game with the problems?

Game Doesn't Work
I bought this game in hopes of having something fun to do on my computer as I am always working. The problem is that it won't work. It worked once. I called up tech and got a very friendly tech. He said I needed the latest update of the video card driver and also to completely uninstall the program and reinstall it. I did both and the game worked once, but never again. I have installed and reinstalled it a few times, but no go. I have a brand new Gateway notebook with Windows 200 Pro. You would think that a Microsoft program would work with Windows. Oh well.

Completely unusable to my great frustration
The day I ordered this upgrade I posted a review of Links LS that was sincere and enthusiastic. Sadly, I have to revise that review after installing this version. It will not work, and it has made the earlier version unworkable as well. I have no working version of Microsoft Links LS 2001 suddenly.

And I have a very normal system configuration. Powerful, but normal. Everything inside is Intel and the operating system is Microsoft as well as most of the software.

Ninety percent of what is written about Microsoft is egregious slander. Another nine percent is accurate, but merely sour grapes from less talented people. This is one of those cases in the last one percent. Some paranoid management decision has ruined a great product.

Without notice, copy protection of the most annoying old-fashioned variety has been added -- and does not work. Moreover, the installation process retroactively applies the tactic to earlier versions. Install this version and you're rolling the dice on whether you'll have any working version at all.

It demands the program disk when you launch. Workable, if insulting, except it promptly crashes while attempting to "validate the media." And so does the old version after you've attempted to install this "upgrade."

After three hours last night and another four today, this is what I've learned:

a. The new version installs a "Safedisk feature" (a third-party copy protection scheme) that is not compatible with some CD drives. I have two, from two different manufacturers, and it is compatible with neither.

b. The new version cannot be run if Safedisk is not compatible with your CD drive. The Microsoft Knowledge Base uses the coy phrase: "No known solution." So I uninstalled the new version.

c. Reinstalling the old version I learned that it now applies the same -- inoperable -- "feature." It wants the program disk in the drive and then crashes when you do so. (Mind you, both of these are fully paid versions. I don't steal anything, let alone anything as trivial as software.)

d. After various arcane magic known to us system geeks, I have done the obvious and many things not so obvious without success. I have restored the system registry to its pre-install condition; manually removed the files a well-behaved program installs that might be left behind by the "un-install" function; and conducted other tests and experiments not worth detailing. Somewhere inside Microsoft a paranoid programmer has intentionally gone around all the programming guidelines for Windows to "hide" this new feature where it will not be removed by normal procedures.

Buy this program and you run a realistic chance of disabling earlier versions as well as wasting the money you spend on this one.

I haven't decided how much I care about this. ... Perhaps I'll explore what was done enough to get my old version running and maybe I won't. Certainly I won't install a third CD drive or take any of the Draconian measures suggested in the Microsoft Knowledge Base in order to run a program with minor fixes from the previous version.